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The Sound Off Brother sent me this link last night. It is well worth the read. But here’s a sample. • $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said the project was inefficient. • A $246 million tax…
OK … you were right and I didn’t think it was possible. Today’s poll question … do you think the Senate Democrats will kill, cut, or add more pork to the porkapalooza, should not have been a hard one since I wrote the poll question but I admit I was wrong. I thought the answer…
Take action now. Radio Vice Online and Jim’s show – Sound Off Connecticut – now has a national audience. We’re even getting hundreds of visitors from outside of the United States. As a coalition, we may be able to do get together and burn up some phone lines and keep e-mail servers busy. Why does…
If the numbers I see here are correct … then Republicans refused to cave to this pork filled piece of crap. Some economic stimulus. Money for sod, birth control, HIV and STD prevention, government cars, the arts … not to mention billions for day care centers and let’s not forget ACORN. Please. Stimulus? You decide.…
OK … yesterday Gibbs defended the millions of dollars to sod the DC mall as an economic stimulus. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZlhLMIrS2I But that became an embarrassment so the Democrats took it out. Today Gibbs was hit with the question today … yesterday a stimulus, today its not? httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQajHrOXEIY These guys are starting to look like the gang…
Less than 36 hours after the bill was released to the public, the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 passed through the U.S. House of Representatives along party lines. 36 hours. Yeah, sure… the public – and even congress – had plenty of time to review 1,122 pages of pork. Click here to read our previous…
As noted yesterday, I figured it would take less than 24 hours for a draft of the new House appropriations bill (H.R. 1105) to show up, and we’ve found it and have it here. Hat tip to Sister Toldja who provides a link to the scanned draft [PDF, 13mb]. It has been posted on the…
We dished out hundreds of billions to the finance system and got pretty much nothing in return. Many of these institutions are now insolvent – whatever that means – but that does not mean the government can not find other ways to spend upwards of $1 trillion dollars to stimulate the economy. I should have…
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